Happy birthday to the World Wide Web, as it was on March 12, 1989 that Tim
Berners-Lee first proposed the system we use today. Here's a bit from
the Wikipedia: "On 12
March 1989 Berners-Lee issued a proposal, titled 'Information Management: A
Proposal',[10] to the management at CERN for a system called 'Mesh' that
referenced ENQUIRE, a database and software project he had built in 1980, which
used the term 'web' and described a more elaborate information management system
based on links embedded in readable text: 'Imagine, then, the references in this
document all being associated with the network address of the thing to which
they referred, so that while reading this document you could skip to them with a
click of the mouse.' Such a system, he explained, could be referred to using one
of the existing meanings of the word hypertext, a term that he says was coined
in the 1950s. There is no reason, the proposal continues, why such hypertext
links could not encompass multimedia documents including graphics, speech and
video, so that Berners-Lee goes on to use the term hypermedia.[11]."

If that's not enough, today is also
IHOP Free
Pancake Day, offering the chance to support children's charity and eat free
pancakes, a win/win if ever there was one (thanks Kxmode). Sadly, it does not
seem there are any IHOP locations in Europe, but the artists formerly known as
International House of Pancakes are indeed international with locations in North
America, Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. Speaking
of
sadness, this describes our reaction to our recent visit to a local IHOP. These are independent franchises,
and this one is pretty grubby, so we just turned around and left. But I have a real fondness for
IHOP from my
childhood, and there are two more about the same distance from us, so I may try
to convince MrsBlue to go on an adventure to one of them. You know, to help
kids.

When it comes to aircraft I figure the best thing to do is choose caution. If there is even the slightest possible risk that either is known or suspected the planes should be grounded. I can't for the life of me understand why anyone in a political or FAA position would do otherwise. I mean, there is the obvious risks to lives but it's probably the end of your career if the press is asking 24/7 why the planes aren't grounded and then another plane crashes. Whether you are a normal human, a sociopathic selfish prick, or somewhere in between it's the right move.

Yeah, that particular problem got fixed. However, one part of the current issue is the reason the auto-pilot is trying to pull the nose down is based off the input from a single sensor which is supposed to determine the angle the nose is at. The patch Boeing is doing will cause the auto-pilot decision to be based on multiple sensors.

I hope that is a bit too paranoid. More likely the stories have just be pulled off the front page by other stories(the college admission stuff, Trump, Manafort, Brexit...). Given the number of stories on the 737 Max 8, finding the ones about this portion of the story is not particularly easy.

Basically there is a national database which allows pilots to report things anonymously. A search of that database found multiple reports of this issue with the auto-pilot pulling the nose down during takeoffz.

Thanks!Is Boeing using their immense wealth to purge unflattering articles about the Crash 8.Nah, that'd never happen. They have to work on sanitizing the national database.

“Yeah, I’d like to order one large phone with extra phones, please.” “Cell phone. No-no-no-no, rotary! And pay phone on half.”

Basically there is a national database which allows pilots to report things anonymously. A search of that database found multiple reports of this issue with the auto-pilot pulling the nose down during takeoffz.

Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 12, 2019, 13:57:Since Boeing is being required to make a software change it would seemingly be a good idea to ground them until at least that change is in place and the pilots have been trained concerning any changes...

shocking that they would install a new flight control system on the new plane and think it wasn't worth telling the customers in any way, shape or form. they're gonna eat hundreds of millions in lawsuits over this. sounds like a classic case of engineers' hubris. no one's fancy new invention is foolproof - document it and let everyone know how to deal with failure cases.

Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 12, 2019, 13:57:Since Boeing is being required to make a software change it would seemingly be a good idea to ground them until at least that change is in place and the pilots have been trained concerning any changes...

The rest of the civilized world agree's with you. But you know planes are like hummingbirds and bumblebees, they're 'far too complex to fly'

Since Boeing is being required to make a software change it would seemingly be a good idea to ground them until at least that change is in place and the pilots have been trained concerning any changes...

Yeah going from Lynx to Netscape was like from DOS to Windows - simply amazing!

Why don't these brainiacs at Harvard put all that time and money into convincing people to finally get government to fix the root causes of the problem instead. That's some cartoonishly supervillain sort of nonsense they're proposing.

“There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” - Will Rogers